Iraqi Forces

BAS News - 2017-08-09 23:47 ERBIL — Iraqi Federal Police forces killed a senior Islamic State (IS) judge in a raid in western Mosul’s Old City on Wednesday as the forces continue to clear the city from any remaining IS presence. Shaker Jawdat, chief at the Iraqi federal Police said ... 61

BAS News - 2017-08-08 23:36 ERBIL — Curfew has been imposed in Mosul's Old City following reports of an armed group of men hiding in tunnels and houses in the area, Iraqi Federal Police announced on Tuesday. According to a statement released by the Iraqi Federal Police, the claims ... 74

BAS News - 2017-08-08 16:09 MOSUL — Iraqi security forces arrested a senior intelligence official of the so-called Islamic State (IS) in the eastern areas of Mosul, a security source said on Tuesday. The source, who spoke to Shafaaq News on condition of anonymity, said that the Ira ... 57

BAS News - 2017-08-08 00:14 ERBIL — The Iraqi army will continue being responsible for security in the recently liberated city of Mosul until the local federal police forces restore their pre-Islamic State (IS) capabilities, a military spokesperson said on Monday. According to Brig ... 71

BAS News - 2017-08-08 00:14 ERBIL — Civilians in Iraq’s Anbar Province are relying on themselves for protection, as they believe the work of the Iraqi Security forces is ineffective in regards to attacks by the Islamic State (IS). According to one of the residents in the town of Hi ... 71

BAS News - 2017-08-05 23:30 ERBIL — Islamic State (IS) militants have started digging trenches inside and around the northern Iraqi town of Tel Affar as the Iraqi government forces a preparing for a major assault on the extremist group there. The IS leadership has also put its jiha ... 81

BAS News - 2017-08-05 23:30 ERBIL — Iraqi forces discovered a long network of tunnels used by the Islamic State (IS) militants in the recently liberated areas of western Mosul, Iraqi Federal Police commander said on Saturday. Lieutenant General Raed Shaker Jawdat, commander of the ... 80

BAS News - 2017-08-05 16:17 ERBIL — Kirkuk province refuses to cooperate with the plans made between the Iraqi government and Iran to ship its oil to Iran because the province has not been consulted on the plan, Kirkuk provincial officials said. Kurdish forces took control of some ... 63

Waar Media - 2017-08-04 13:34 WAAR-DUHOK: Iraqi warplanes killed nine Islamic State militants while moving in a convoy for an attack on security forces near Salahuddin, a local source in Kirkuk was quoted saying on Friday. Alsumaria News quoted the source saying that the strike, carr ... 56

BAS News - 2017-08-03 23:27 BAGHDAD — Great Britain's Chief of the Armed Forces, Air Chief Marshal Stuart Peach, affirmed on Thursday that his country will continue supporting the Iraqi government, in regards to the liberation of the remaining territories held by the so-called Isla ... 63

KurdPress - 2017-08-03 11:22The chief of staff of the defense ministry of Kurdistan region stated that the military forces of Iraq began operation against the IS terrorist group in order to retake the city of Tal Afar in the northwestern part of the country and have already liberate ... 27

BAS News - 2017-07-30 20:58 ERBIL— Five brigades of the Iraqi armed forces who are mainly from Tal Afar have been excluded from the operation to liberate the town, stated a commander. Musa Ali Julaq, a commander of the Shi'ite Hashd al-Shaabi forces, stated on Sunday that the 92nd ... 55

BAS News - 2017-07-30 17:31 ERBIL— The Shi'ite Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitaries have submitted a bill to the Iraqi Council of Ministers for the duration of service and retirement of their forces. Ahmed al-Assadi, the spokesperson for the Shi'ite militias, told Iraqi media outlets on ... 42

BAS News - 2017-07-29 17:04 ERBIL — The Shi’ite Arab militia of Hashd al-Shaabi, along with other Iraqi forces, will take part in the offensive to retake the city of Tel Afar in west of Mosul from the Islamic State (IS), Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said on Saturday. Addres ... 57

KurdPress - 2017-07-27 12:03A village retaken by the Islamic State (IS) in the southern part of Mosul’s Ninevah province in early July has been clawed back after weeks of fighting and a SWAT team being called in from another province. ... 53

Aranews - 2017-07-27 05:50 At least Sixteen jihadist women, including a 16-year-old German girl who ran away from home, have been arrested in Mosul as Iraqi forces re-captured the northern city from the Islamic State (ISIS). Three Iraqi intelligence officials told the Associated P ... 97

BAS News - 2017-07-25 12:13 ERBIL — A number of Syrian Arab tribes in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) are now working to establish a mobilisation armed force similar to the Iraqi Shi’ite Arab militias of Hashd al-Shaabi, a plan said to be supported by the Syrian regime and the Islamic Re ... 103

Washington Times - 2017-07-24 15:20 The fight to drive Islamic State from Iraq will likely get tougher for Iraqi security forces and the U.S.-backed coalition supporting them, despite Baghdad securing one of the most important victories of the three-year war against the terrorist group. Th ... 84

BAS News - 2017-07-24 13:42 ERBIL — Iraq’s Defence Minister Irfan Hayali said on Monday that the country’s armed forces will not interfere in the political affairs, including the issues pertaining to the imminent independence referendum in the Kurdistan Region. During an interview ... 93

BAS News - 2017-07-23 18:07 ERBIL— While they were trying to flee to Syria, 10 Turkmen members of the Islamic State (IS) were killed on Sunday by the Iraqi forces southwest of Mosul. Lt. Col. Hussein Imad from Nineveh police service told BasNews that the extremists were moving from ... 96

BAS News - 2017-07-22 18:38 ERBIL— Five people from a village of Nineveh province were freed from an Islamic State (IS) secret prison by the Iraqi forces. Cap. Mohammed Jasim, from Nineveh police, told BasNews on Saturday that the people from the village of Imam were released two d ... 62

KurdPress - 2017-07-22 15:36The former Iraqi Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Babekir Zebari, stated that the demands from the Kurdish forces of Peshmerga to quit the regions they have liberated from the terrorist group of the Islamic State (IS) is in contrast to former deals ... 56

BAS News - 2017-07-22 15:33 MOSUL — The minister of agriculture of the Islamic State (IS) was arrested on Saturday by the Iraqi security forces in west Mosul. Falah Rashid, IS minister of agriculture, was arrested on Saturday in the newly liberated western half of Mosul. An Iraqi m ... 69

BAS News - 2017-07-22 14:58 MOSUL — As the Mosul was announced fully liberated from the Islamic State (IS) militants after three years, conflicts between various Iraqi militia forces present in the city is on the rise. Earlier on 21st July, military confrontations broke out between ... 68

BAS News - 2017-07-21 19:50 ERBIL — Iraq’s Ambassador to the US, Farid Yassin, has said that the liberation of Mosul from the Islamic State (IS) militants would have not been achieved without the vital role of Kurdish Peshmerga forces. “The great victory [Mosul liberation] would no ... 61

BAS News - 2017-07-21 10:44 Hoshyar Zebari reveals some details of IS bribing Iraqi military forces ERBIL- During the nine months of the battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State (IS), more than 40,000 civilians were killed by the parties to the war, as stated by the former Ira ... 89

BAS News - 2017-07-20 00:32 IZMIR — The World Bank announced on Wednesday it would shore up support for the long-term reconstruction of areas affected by the war against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq, recently liberated by the Iraqi forces. The Iraqi government released a statemen ... 61

BAS News - 2017-07-19 12:03 BAGHDAD — The Shi’ite militia groups of Hashd al-Shaabi have gone out of control by kidnapping official Iraqi security, police and army forces across the country, said a lawmaker. MP Hamid Mutlag told al-Arabiya that such arbitrary actions by the Hashd a ... 77

BAS News - 2017-07-18 16:39 The district is under siege by the Iraqi forces TIKRIT — The Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights said that lack of food is threatening the lives of 20 thousand civilians on the left coast of Shirqat district, north of Tikrit, in Salahaddin province. Accor ... 19

BAS News - 2017-07-18 10:43 They are suffering from terrible psychological problems ERBIL — As the Iraqi forces are clearing the newly liberated areas in west Mosul from the remaining Islamic State (IS) elements, three more Kurdish Yezidis were rescued on Monday. Barakat Shamo, the ... 38

BAS News - 2017-07-18 00:06 ERBIL — Iraqi Air Forces (IAF) warplanes killed more than 30 Islamic State (IS) militants in a series of airstrikes in the town of Tel Afar, west of Mosul on Monday. According to a statement released by the Iraqi Defense Ministry's War Media Cell, the fi ... 22

BAS News - 2017-07-17 13:12 KIRKUK — For Hawija operation, there needs to be a full coordination between the Iraqi army and Peshmerga forces, said a Peshmerga commander on Monday. Kamal Kirkuki, Commander of Peshmerga Forces in Kirkuk’s southern front line, told BasNews that close ... 40

BAS News - 2017-07-17 11:20 DUHOK — As the Iraqi forces are clearing the newly-liberated Mosul from the remaining Islamic State (IS) elements, two more Kurdish Yezidi children were liberated on Sunday. Hussein Qaidi, head of Kurdistan Region's office for Yezidi Abductees' Affairs, ... 75

L'Important - 2017-07-17 09:29 Kurdistan Regional GovernmentÂ (KRG) forces have expelled at least four Yezidi families and threatened others since June 2017 because of their relativesâ participation in Iraqi government forces, Human Rights Watch said today. The KRGâ ... 62

BAS News - 2017-07-16 17:08 ERBIL — Iraqi forces on Saturday captured an Islamic State (IS) female sniper, reportedly of Russian nationality. She was later announced to be a Yezidi abducted girl. After pictures of the IS sniper were released, a Yezidi family whose daughter has been ... 68

BAS News - 2017-07-16 15:34 SOFIA — About 20 suspected members of the so-called Islamic State (IS) were captured by the Iraqi elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) units in the past few days in an underground tunnel in Mosul's Old City, Turkish media reported on Sunday. According t ... 54

BAS News - 2017-07-16 14:38 ANBAR — 13 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed by a military operation of al-Jazeera Operations Command forces in Anbar province on Sunday, a source from the command said. "Intelligence information enabled the Iraqi army and al-Jazeera Operations to ... 51

BAS News - 2017-07-15 19:29 MOSUL — More than 250 Islamic State (IS) members were arrested in Mosul on Saturday, five days after the city was announced liberated, the Joint Operations Command reported. According to a statement, made by the Joint Operations Command, the Iraqi forces ... 68

BAS News - 2017-07-15 18:54 ERBIL— A girl who was captured and identified by the Iraqi forces as a Russian sniper of the Islamic State (IS) organization is in reality an abducted Yezidi girl, her family confirms. After seeing the photo of their daughter in the reports, Nzal Khalid ... 65

BAS News - 2017-07-15 16:10 MOSUL — As the operations to clear Mosul from the remaining Islamic State (IS) militias continue, the Iraqi forces on Saturday captured a Russian national female sniper of the jihadist group. Media activists close to the Iraqi army published a photograph ... 64

Waar Media - 2017-07-14 15:29 WAAR-DUHOK: Even though the Iraqi forces, backed by a US-led global coalition, have achieved their biggest success against ISIS by liberating the key city of Mosul, the war against the terrorist group is not over yet, says a top envoy. “This thing is not ... 64

BAS News - 2017-07-14 10:21 ERBIL— The leader of the Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitaries on Thursday criticized the Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi for not paying tribute to the role of Hashd al-Shaabi forces in liberating Mosul, noting there are plots against the Shi'ite paramilitar ... 47

BAS News - 2017-07-13 16:05 ERBIL — The son of the Yezidi community’s leader emphasized on their utmost efforts to uncover the fate of thousands of Yezidis who are still held in captivity of the Islamic State (IS), calling on the government forces and security institutions to assis ... 41

Washington Times - 2017-07-13 14:55 Even with U.S.-backed Iraqi forces driving the last Islamic State fighters from Mosul, a big new cloud looms over the country's fragile stability if Iraqi Kurds go ahead with a planned referendum on independence from Baghdad, the top American commander i ... 55

BAS News - 2017-07-11 23:34 ERBIL — Amnesty International released a statement on Tuesday, saying the so-called Islamic State (IS) has frequently violated international humanitarian laws throughout the nearly three years of controlling the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, but they hav ... 62

KurdPress - 2017-07-11 09:49Iraqi Counter-Terrorism forces stated Monday, July 10, that the liberated the city and the operation in Mosul is now confined only to searching and chasing the IS elements. ... 55

United Nations - 2017-07-11 00:07Following Iraqi Government’s declaration that its forces have liberated the northern city of Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters, Secretary-General António Guterres today paid tribute to the country’s people and Government ... 72

BAS News - 2017-07-10 22:47 MOSUL — Iraqi forces freed two Yezidi girls on Monday, during an operation in western Mosul, the Ministry of Defense’s War Media Cell (WMC) said. According to the WMC statement the Iraqi 9th Armored Division freed two Yezidi girls, during an operation in ... 55

The Kurdish Project - 2017-07-10 22:08 The following article was originally published in Slate. The Iraqi government celebrated Sunday as it declared that the country’s armed forces had defeated ISIS in the militants’ former stronghold of Mosul after a nine-month campaign. Although heavy figh ... 58

BAS News - 2017-07-10 19:55 ERBIL— Nearly nine months since the onset of the major operation to liberate Mosul on Monday evening Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi declared the success of the operation. From the base of the Counter-Terrorism forces in eastern Mosul, Abadi, in mil ... 53

Waar Media - 2017-07-10 17:23 WAAR-DUHOK: Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani congratulated the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on the occasion of the liberation of the city of Mosul. In a phone call on Monday, Barzani congratulated Abadi on the victory over the Islamic St ... 54

Washington Post - 2017-07-10 16:20 War is often reduced to facts and figures: how many months a battle lasts, how many lives are lost, how much territory is gained, how many bombs are dropped. Iraqi forces, coalition-backed Kurdish fighters and pro-government militias spent nine months ex ... 66

Waar Media - 2017-07-09 17:53 WAAR-DUHOK: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived in Mosul Sunday and congratulated Iraqi forces and citizens for victory over Islamic State militants who had occupied Iraq’s second largest city for three years. Abadi’s media office said he congra ... 60

BAS News - 2017-07-09 17:23 MOSUL — Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived in Mosul on Sunday and congratulated the armed forces for the victory they have scored over Islamic State (IS) after nearly 9 months of fierce fighting. "The commander in chief of the armed forces [Pri ... 55

BAS News - 2017-07-09 00:25 MOSUL — Iraqi security forces announced the complete liberation of Mosul from the so-called Islamic State (IS), after nearly nine months of fighting the extremist group. The Iraqi forces recaptured the last IS-held area in Mosul's Old City district on Sa ... 62

BAS News - 2017-07-09 00:02 MOSUL — At least 35 members of the Islamic State (IS) were killed in a failed attempt to flee western Mosul on Saturday, according to the Iraqi military. The Iraqi forces further detained another 6 IS militants, who also tried to escape the battlefield i ... 66

BAS News - 2017-07-08 19:31 MOSUL — Islamic State (IS) militants vow to fight to death, as the Iraqi forces are advancing towards liberating the last square meters held by the extremist group in western Mosul. According to a statement by the IS news agency, Amaq, the extremists wil ... 73

E-Kurd - 2017-07-07 14:31 MOSUL,— Iraqi forces have recaptured a hospital and other medical facilities in west Mosul, further isolating Islamic State group holdouts in the Old City, officers said. The country’s security forces are in the final stages of the gruelling battle to re ... 66

E-Kurd - 2017-07-07 14:31 MOSUL,— The Islamic State group is striking back as Iraqi forces are on the cusp of full victory in Mosul, sending female suicide bombers to target soldiers as the battle for the country’s second-largest city nears its end. At least 15 people were killed ... 78

E-Kurd - 2017-07-07 14:31 SULAIMANI, Iraq’s Kurdistan region,— Kurdish PUK security (Asayish) forces detained an activist in Penjwen district east of the city of Sulaimani, the family and a friend of the activist said. Iqbal Muradi, who is a friend of activist Adnan Rashid, told ... 59

E-Kurd - 2017-07-07 14:31 MOSUL,— Iraq’s prime minister on Tuesday congratulated his fighters on “the big victory in Mosul” – even as fighting with Islamic State militants continued in Mosul’s Old City neighborhood where Iraqi forces are about 250 meters from the Tigris River and ... 13

E-Kurd - 2017-07-07 14:31 MOSUL,— Some 300 Islamic State fighters remain in the small patch of territory still controlled by the group in Mosul’s Old City, a senior Iraqi commander said Wednesday. Lt. Gen. Sami al-Aridi of Iraq’s special forces told The Associated Press that the ... 6

BAS News - 2017-07-06 17:00 The Yezidi girl escaped to safety ERBIL— While trying to stop a Yezidi girl from escaping, three Islamic State (IS) militants were killed by the Iraqi forces. Iraqi War Media Cell reported on Thursday that they girl was chased by the militants when she t ... 52

BAS News - 2017-07-06 17:00 ERBIL— A commander of the Iraqi Rapid Reaction Forces was killed on Thursday in the right bank of Mosul, according to a security source. The informed source, who was not identified by Iraqi media outlets, said Lt. Col. Hamid Mohammed, who commanded the f ... 48

BAS News - 2017-07-06 14:56 MOSUL — The Iraqi forces killed the general assistant of the Islamic State (IS) chief Abu Bakir al-Baghdadi on Thursday while advancing in al-Maidan, the last IS-held neighbourhood in Old City district in west Mosul. Iraqi forces are engaged in violent s ... 62

BAS News - 2017-07-06 11:35 MOSUL — The Iraqi counterterrorism forces continue to advance in al-Maidan, the last neighbourhood held by the Islamic State (IS) in Old City district in west Mosul, said the commander counterterrorism forces on Thursday. Lieutenant General Abdul Wahab a ... 60

BAS News - 2017-07-05 23:49 MOSUL — No more than 300 Islamic State (IS) militants remain in the Old City district of Mosul, a senior Iraqi commander said on Wednesday. According to Lieutenant General Sami al-Aridi of the Iraqi special forces, who spoke to the Associated Press, the ... 49
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